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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
Worry
Leo Aikman

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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Night
Djuna Barnes

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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
Kindness
Sir James M. Barrie

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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Communication
Bernard M. Baruch

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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
Hollywood
Bernardo Bertolucci

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.
Work
Bible

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Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. [Psalms 30:5]
Grief
Bible

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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
Rules
William Blake

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Cities and City Life
Rupert Brooke

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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Life and Living
Lord Byron

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
Success
Eddie Cantor

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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
Evil
Thomas Carlyle

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Books - Reading
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.
Food and Eating
Charles II

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Character
Chinese Proverb

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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
Fame
Chinese Proverb

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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Ignorance
Confucius

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I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
Confession
Rodney Dangerfield

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Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! [As Margo Channing in All About Eve]
Drivers and Driving
Bette Davis

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Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Dreams
William Dement

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Death and Dying
Emily Dickinson

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Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
Emotions
T. S. Eliot

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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Dignity
Edward M. Forster

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Adversity
Kahlil Gibran

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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
Silence
Kahlil Gibran

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun